In February 2010, Mitchel Anderson and a friend got in a car with a man they met at a bar while partying.
They were driving around the city listening to music when police pulled the car over on Fountain Boulevard and arrested the driver, Daniel Clayton, on suspicion of drunken driving.
Colorado Springs police officers Barry Worstell and Craig Calkins made Anderson and his friend, Arthur Rudd, get out of the car and told them to “take a walk,” court documents state.
They did.
About an hour later, Anderson walked into the path of a car — an accident that left him with 21 broken bones and forced doctors to amputate his left leg above the knee.
Now, Anderson is suing the city and the Police Department, claiming he was so drunk that police should have taken him home or put him in protective custody.
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